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If you could buy a “lottery bitcoin miner” would you?

the idea would be to help decentralization of mining/pools by appealing to a new type of hobbiest miner who is in it for the fun/lulz… not aiming for scaling/optimizing a mining business

imagine you could pay $10/month to rent a simple bitcoin miner. Plug it in to an electrical socket at your home, connect it to wifi. maybe have some gaming mechanic related to lotto ticket scratchers, but ultimately you have a very small chance to win something very big — maybe something close to a block reward or more each week

does this sound interesting? maybe it wouldn’t appeal to you, but could you imagine other people who it would appeal to? a lot of people play state lotteries. bitcoin mining has a credibly neutral “random” lottery-like reward

just sayin…

Crusty 👨‍💻 1y ago

Nerdminer seems a cheap option for that:

https://github.com/BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2?tab=readme-ov-file

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David King 1y ago

oh this is cool, thanks for sharing. might be more of simplifying ordering and a marketing angle to it?

Crusty 👨‍💻 1y ago

I think someone already did that too:

https://nerdminers.com/

David King 1y ago

yes! 🙌🙌

Crusty 👨‍💻 1y ago

But a fun project could be mining on colab notebooks. Not sure if works, but would be fun!

David King 1y ago

meaning like a jupyter notebook?

Crusty 👨‍💻 1y ago

Exactly. The google colab has gpus as well I think for "free". In return for your personal details of course. I guess it does not work as good as an ASIC, but could be better than a gpu.